The Cardano Glossary
Find the meanings of popuar words used in the Cardano Blockchain & Project Catalyst.
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Technical Analysis/Trend Analysis (TA) |
An evaluation method involving statistical analyses of market activity, such as price and volume. Charts and other tools are used to identify patterns to underpin and drive investment decisions.
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Technical Indicators | |
Testnet |
An alternative blockchain used by developers for testing.
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The DAO |
Decentralised Autonamous Organisation.
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Throughput |
Throughput is how many actions can be completed in a given time frame.
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Ticker |
An abbreviation used to uniquely identify cryptocurrencies. *see Symbol.
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Ticker Symbol | |
Timestamp |
A form of identification for when a certain transaction occurred.
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Token |
A digital unit designed with utility in mind, providing access and use of a larger crypto economic system.
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Token Economy |
An economy of goods and services that can run without intermediaries and third parties with the help of the blockchain technology.
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Token Generation Event |
The time at which a token is issued.
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Token Issuance |
Token issuance is the process of creating new tokens and adding them to the total token supply of a cryptocurrency.
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Token minting |
the process of creating new tokens.
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Token Sale |
A token sale refers to the initial offering of a cryptocurrency token to a private pool of investors before it officially goes on the market.
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Token Standard |
The most common token standard today is the Ethereum Request for Comment or ERC.
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Token Swap |
Token swaps can refer to one of two things: 1. Direct exchange of a certain amount of one cryptocurrency token for another between users facilitated by a special exchange service. 2. Migration of a cryptocurrency token built on top of one blockchain platform to a different blockchain.
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Tokenization | |
Tokenize | |
Tokenomics |
Tokenomics is the science of token economy which consists of a set of rules that governs a cryptocurrency's issuance and supply.
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Total Supply |
The total amount of coins in existence right now, minus any coins that have been verifiably burned. *see Circulating Supply and Max Supply.
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Total Value Locked (TVL) | |
TPS |
transactions per second.
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Trade Volume |
The amount of the cryptocurrency that has been traded in the last 24 hours.
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Trading Bot |
A crypto trading bot is essentially a program that is designed to automate cryptocurrency asset trading on the behalf of the trader.
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Trading Volume | |
Transaction |
an instance that represents the process of sending or receiving funds in the system.
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Transaction (TX) |
The act of exchanging cryptocurrencies on a blockchain.
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Transaction Fee |
A payment for using the blockchain to transact.
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Treasury | |
Trojan | |
Trust | |
Trustless |
An environment where there is no centralized authority.
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Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) |
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is method of access that requires two different forms of authentication.
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TX |
see transaction.
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Typosquatting |
Typosquatting is a deceptive practice used by scammers to trick people into entering a counterfeit website and compromising their private information.
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